Fiscal irresponsibility reigns in Sacramento. California is a test kitchen for bad fiscal policy, which is enabled a bicameral state legislature that seems to also be bi-polar and governor who seems much less competent outside of a movie set.
Add "right of way" to the long list of things that everyone wants to have, but not so many want to share. To be fair, drivers aren't the only culprits in the game of crosswalk chicken. Petaluma has more than it's share of self-righteous pedestrians who feel entitled to step [...]
Word has it that the much-anticipated General Plan is about to emerge from the bureaucratic labyrinth where it has taken shape. The good news is that those who have used the General Plan's pending arrival to stifle building projects of which they disapproved will have to find new reasons to [...]
Gee what can one say about Native Americans that won't prompt the knee-jerk cry of racism from the PC Brigade? Nothing but glowing praise, I'm afraid. Native Americans are virtually untouchable thanks to their sacred - and much sought-after - position of being both minorities and victims - wait...that's redundant. [...]
Goodwill Industries is but one of the many opportunities for passing along unwanted but still useful items... Other folks who do good work by recycling our discards to those who can make use of them include the Salvation Army, the Veterans, Cerebral Palsy, and a bunch more. God bless 'em [...]
Our own Petaluma Valley Hospital is suffering its own health care crisis. If you'd prefer not to drive to Novato or Santa Rosa for to find a first class Emergency Room when your heart skips more than a beat, or a top notch OB/GYN facility for your baby to born, [...]
Futile as it might seem to some, protesting the new Rohnert Park casino offered the local residents - and the rest of us who feel that a adding a couple of thousand more slot machines to the county will damage our quality of life - some faint hope of influencing [...]
To their credit, local citizens took seriously last summer's pleas to conserve water. In fact, they took requests to cut back their water use so seriously that the County water agencies' revenues plummeted as a result. To reward us all for our frugality an our concern for the ecology - [...]
You'd think that a town whose roads need re-paving as badly as the roads in Petaluma do would welcome a handy source of asphalt. But of course you would be guilty of using logic, the anathema of all those who pursue utopian ideals at all costs. The utopian ideal in [...]
It's hard to be a Republican in California. It's not that the GOP doesn't stand for worthy principles, it's that the California version is like some bizarre parody the GOP. If state's Democrats fabricated a straw dog imitation of Republicans, which they could set up to be easily mocked, they [...]